In this video German product designer Simon Frambach shows us the table light he designed that can be dimmed by lowering the shade like a switch.

Frambach designed the Nod lamp as a minimal alternative to the "large and voluminous" shades that he believes have become redundant from a functional perspective.

The lamp features a rectangular aluminium stem which sits on a circular base, and supports a round, flat shade. A lollipop stick-shaped tab on the top allows users to tilt the lamp up and down, dimming or brightening the light as they do so.

"All functions are simplified into one intuitive action that leave the task light to be void of any buttons or sliders," said Frambach, who is currently studying Industrial Design at the School of Arts and Design in Kassel.
The designer based the light's mechanism on the up and down motion of flip switches, and the ways laptop screens automatically brighten when opened. The shapes of pop-up headlights ? which raise from the bonnets of cars ? also formed a reference for the Nod light's shade.

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